Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Associated Concepts Facet
3. Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)
4. [religions and religious concepts]
5. religions (belief systems, cultures)
6. Pre-Columbian religions

Anotations

Scope note:

Religion of the Aztec culture. It was based on earlier belief systems, filtered down from the Olmecs, Teotihuacan, Monte Alban, Mayan, and fellow Nahuatl-speaking Toltec peoples; was typically Mesoamerican in terms of cosmology, the emphasis on the sun, and even particular deities.